ABOLITION OF POSTS WHICH ARE LYING VACANT FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS

Abolition of Posts which are lying vacant for more than five Years Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Aboliti...

Abolition of Posts which are lying vacant for more than five Years

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Abolition of Posts

Posted On: 07 MAR 2018 4:50PM by PIB Delhi

The Department of Expenditure in its consolidated compendium of instructions/ guidelines dated 12.04.2017 directed all the Ministries/Departments to abolish all the posts which are lying vacant for more than five years and submit a report. At the same time, Department of Expenditure has also decided that now vacant posts would fall under deemed abolished category after a period of two/three years against earlier norm of one year subject to laid down conditions. Deemed abolished posts can be got revived from Department of Expenditure subject to fulfilling of stipulated conditions.

This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.